Service

Professional activities

  • 2024, March: Member, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant Adjudication Committee.
  • 2023, February-March: Chair, SSHRC Connection Grant Adjudication Committee.
  • 2022, May-June, August-September, November-December: member, SSHRC Connection Grant Adjudication Committee.
  • 2020-2023: Member, Disability Task Force, International Writing Centers Association.
  • 2020/2022: Conference Chair, International Writing Centers Association (Vancouver, BC, Canada).
  • 2019-2020: Member, Search Committee, Aga Khan University (Karachi, Pakistan) (Director, English Language Enhancement Network recruitment).
  • 2018-present: Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Response to Writing.
  • 2018- 2019: Member, Outreach and Membership Committee, International Writing Centers Association.
  • 2017: Invited leader, International Writing Centers Association Summer Institute, June 18-24, Vancouver, BC.
  • 2016-2017: Member, TESOL Professional Development Professional Council.
  • 2016-2017: Immediate Past-President, Canadian Writing Centres’ Association (CWCA).
  • 2015-2016: Conference Chair, Canadian Writing Centres’ Association’s annual conference, May 26-27, Calgary, AB.
  • 2015-2016: President, Canadian Writing Centres’ Association (CWCA).
  • 2015-present: Guest reviewer, Writing Program Administration Journal, Journal of Second Language Writing, Journal of Response to Writing, System, English for Specific Purposes.
  • 2015: Conference proposal vet for the International Writing Centers’ Association 2015 conference.
  • 2014-2015: Vice-President and Conference Program Chair, CWCA.
  • 2014: Guest reviewer, Canadian Modern Language Review.
  • 2013: Guest reviewer, International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
  • 2013-2015: Reviewer, GIST Language Education and Research Journal (academic publication of the Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana in Bogotá, Colombia).
  • 2012-2016: Member, TESOL Journal Editorial Advisory Board.
  • 2012-2013: Member, TESOL Nominating Committee (researchers category).
  • 2011-2014: Francophone representative, Canadian Writing Centres’ Association.
  • 2011-2012: TESOL Conference proposal vet for the Non-Native English Speakers in TESOL Interest Section, the Second Language Writing Interest Section, and the Applied Linguistics Interest Section.
  • 2010-2012: Guest reviewer, TESOL Journal.
  • 2010: Guest reviewer, Journal of International Migration and Integration.
  • 2008-present: Guest reviewer, TESOL Quarterly.
  • 2007-2011: Member, TESOL Book Publication Committee.
  • 2007-2014: TESOL Conference proposal vet for the Non-Native English Speakers in TESOL Interest Section Award.
  • 2007-2008: French translator for all the abstracts of newly published articles in the Journal of Second Language Writing.
  • 2006-2009: Reviewer for Composition textbooks by Bedford/St. Martin’s (Pearson Education).
  • 2005-2007: TESOL Conference proposal vet for the Second Language Writing Interest Section and the Intensive English Program Interest Section.
  • 2005-2006: Chair, Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL Caucus / Interest Section.
  • 2005: Web-manager, International Association of World Englishes conference.
  • 2002-2005: Web-manager, Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL Caucus.

Service – Royal Military College

  • 2023-present: Chair, GenAI Standing Committee.
  • 2022-present: Member-at-Large, Canadian Military Colleges Faculty Association (CFCMA).
  • 2023 (January-April): Chair, AI/ChatGPT Ad Hoc Committee.
  • 2022 (November-December): Member, Selection Committee, Vice-Principal Academic.
  • 2022: Member, Resilience Plus team.
  • 2022: Organizer, Writing Contest (entire RMC community) and production (editing, design, etc.) of a 73-entry booklet.

Service – University of Alberta

  • 2018- 2021: Vice-President, President, then Past President, University of Alberta’s Faculty Women’s Club.
  • 2015- 2016: Chair, Nominations Committee (Faculty of Arts).
  • 2015- 2016: Member, Arts Executive Committee (Faculty of Arts).
  • 2015: Member, Advisory Selection Committee, Faculty of Extension (ESL tenure-track faculty member recruitment).
  • 2014: Undergraduate Awards and Scholarship Committee (UASC) representative, Student Award Office Selection Committee (University level).
  • 2013- 2015: Member, Undergraduate Awards and Scholarship Committee, General Faculty Council (University level).
  • 2012-2021: Member, Academic Integrity Council (University level).
  • 2012-2013: Member, Teaching, Learning and Technology Council (University level).
  • 2012: English and Film Studies Alternate Representative, Association of Academic Staff, University of Alberta (AASUA) (University level).
  • 2011-2012: Chair, Writing Centre Committee (University level).
  • 2009-2021: Ad-hoc member, University Writing Committee (University level).
  • 2009-2017: Member, Writing Studies/Writing Initiative Team Committee.
  • 2009-2010: Member, Writing Studies PhD Program Committee.

Service – Toronto Metropolitan (Ryerson) University

  • 2009: Consultant, Student Learning Centre Committee (University level).
  • 2008-2009: Co-Chair, Academic Writing and Language Proficiency Committee (University level).
  • 2008: Member, Committee on Student Success and Retention (University level).
  • 2008: Member, Writing Across the Curriculum Committee (Faculty of Arts).
  • 2007-2009: Member, Senate Learning and Teaching Committee (University level).
  • 2007-2009: Member, Merit Committee (Faculty of Arts).
  • 2007-2008: Member, First-Year Writing Initiative Committee (Faculty of Community Services).
  • 2007-2008: Member, Chair Advisory Committee (English Department).
  • 2006-2009: Member, Writing Committee (English Department).
  • 2006-2007: Member, MA Program Committee (English Department).
  • 2006-2007: Member, Web-design Committee (English Department).